The gigahertz Centro, also known as 'the Palm-powered grenade'

Personally, we wouldn't want to be within 15 feet of a Centro being mercilessly overclocked to a mind-numbing 936MHz, but we reckon that's where our fearless readers come into play. We're told that this sucker reached prompt criticality and melted into the Earth's crust shortly after this screen shot was taken, and you know what? We can't say we blame it.

[Thanks, Jason]

[eggothewaffle @ Dec 24th 2008 10:10PM]

The blue glow you see emanating behind the Centro is actually liquid nitrogen mixed with Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg - Ain't Nuthin But A G Thang.

It's the coolest mixture in the world; just don't step to it without your heater (lolz bad pun).

[brandon @ Dec 24th 2008 10:17PM]

Say goodbye to any chance of having children....

[silverblackvoid @ Dec 24th 2008 11:23PM]

TCPMP - the most awesomest pocket media player!

[1234321 @ Dec 25th 2008 1:02AM]

0.72RC1, you have served us well

[matt @ Dec 24th 2008 10:11PM]

ZOMG and I thought I was a rebel OC'ing my HTC to 260MHz.

[w0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 @ Dec 24th 2008 10:44PM]

is it a t-mobile shadow? I cant seem to get omapclock to download.

[deyanimay @ Dec 24th 2008 10:48PM]

allshadow.com

[w0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 @ Dec 24th 2008 11:26PM]

i get this message
"initialization failed


reason:cant map i/o"


wtf

[KarlW @ Dec 24th 2008 11:26PM]

Yes, but this thing only has 64MB RAM.

Reminds me of when I had a PS2 Linux kit. It had 32MB of RAM, making it useless for just about anything. I spent two days compiling KDE, which took about 3 minutes to start up. I remember using an old SPARC station and being amazed at how fast it was.

[Arkenklo @ Dec 27th 2008 6:47PM]

@Karl: Well, obviously you overclock the ram to atleast 200 mb.

[Ray @ Dec 24th 2008 10:12PM]

Thus they created a phone that would run so fast that you no longer cared about cell radio brain cancer...

[Byrdman @ Dec 24th 2008 10:13PM]

its stuff like this that is leading to global warming. I bet Al Gore would be furious at this.

[brandon @ Dec 24th 2008 10:22PM]

Are you serial???

[brandon @ Dec 24th 2008 10:23PM]

Or cereal, you know, whatever floats your boat

[w0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 @ Dec 24th 2008 10:37PM]

ya, im cereal.

[Nick @ Dec 24th 2008 11:07PM]

I'm super cereal guys!

[scott @ Dec 24th 2008 11:47PM]

nah! it'd be a new source of energy to fly his private plane to his $3,000-a-month-electric-bill house of his!

[Trial @ Dec 25th 2008 12:12AM]

Well, his bill is so high because he has this giant 50-foot billboard that says "STOP GLOBAL WARMING" on his property, so that everyone can see it.

[camron011 @ Dec 24th 2008 10:14PM]

Sweet Jesus.

[gahahha @ Dec 24th 2008 10:17PM]

damn. 1999 all over again. except in the PALM OF MY HAND

[1234321 @ Dec 24th 2008 11:03PM]

I see what you did there!!!

[Knee to the Groin @ Dec 25th 2008 12:37AM]

"Except in the Palm of my Hand"

So JUST like 1999 when you were single?

[Smileypanda @ Dec 25th 2008 8:29PM]

Ouch.
I see where you get your name...

[Montusama @ Dec 24th 2008 10:19PM]

You're phone is melting.....no that's just my palm.

That thing must be reaching critical mass say hello to the next Chernobyl .

[SKLP @ Dec 25th 2008 2:33AM]

Is that a black hole forming behind?

[Chris @ Dec 24th 2008 10:20PM]

Cause overclocking a DS just wasn't hardcore enough.

[LC @ Dec 24th 2008 10:26PM]

Funny you mention overclocking a DS, because the DS hasn't been overclocked. When you see anything that talks about Overclocking a DS, it just makes the game run at a faster speed not actually raise the frequency of either of the two ARM CPUs in the DS. It's just a speedhack, not overclocking.

[gonintendo @ Dec 24th 2008 10:33PM]

Actually, it is an overclock, but the ds games are synced to the clock speed, so overclocking a ds also speeds the game up.

[Tim @ Dec 24th 2008 10:22PM]

Hmm.... Drop it in a tub of non-conductive mineral oil so we can bump it to an ACTUAL 1000MHz. :)

[Matthew C @ Dec 25th 2008 3:37AM]

hate to burst your bubble there, but it still wouldn't be at a true gigahertz until it reached 1024 MHz. Unless of course you were just aiming for a thousand mega-hertz, in which case you're right on target.

[Kimmo @ Dec 25th 2008 4:36AM]

To Matthew C: Yeah, and one kilometers is so 1024 meters.






;)

[Kimmo @ Dec 25th 2008 4:40AM]

*kilometer

[Dopefish @ Dec 25th 2008 4:51AM]

Jeez this is a pain in the ass.


1024 is the computing Kilo, Mega, Giga etc, because its 2^10, 20 30 etc

1000 is the scientific Kilo, Mega, Giga, and the IEEE decided to cave to manufacturers who wanted to say Kilo at at 1000 so if freely used by computing product manufacturers.


It was all an attempt not to confuse the consumer.

See how unconfused everybody is now IEEE?!?!

[Kimmo @ Dec 25th 2008 4:59AM]

Yeah, but you do agree that Hertz (vibrations/calculations per second or whatever) are counted the 'scientific' way? Otherwise I'm going to be really confused :)

One GHz in computer science is the same as in other sciences, i.e. 1 000 000 000 Hz; so the OP is pretty much spot-on, right?

[Romesh @ Dec 25th 2008 5:21AM]

Kimmo is right, the SI prefixes Kilo, Mega, Giga etc. are all exact powers of 10, so 1000MHz = 1GHz because a computers clock speed is literally 'cycles per second' which follows SI units

However, file sizes are measured in base 2, hence 1024KB = 1MB etc. So to distinguish them from the SI units, Kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte etc. are used, because these represent powers of 2 rather than powers of 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte

[Arkenklo @ Dec 26th 2008 8:55AM]

Geez, enough with all the writing!

[Manhunt0r @ Dec 24th 2008 10:22PM]

dunno what the big deal is tbh. three years ago i always overclocked my tungsten t3 to 640 mhz. and afaik you couldnt overclock the palms to death, in worst case scenario you would just do a hard reset.

[pinchies @ Dec 25th 2008 4:35AM]

This is probably a glitch in tcpmp... for a real benchmark i would want a benchmark program screenshot like "speedy"
My T3 would reset at 708mHz, and not because of heat.... 936mHz.... I'll believe it when I see it. Anyone up for a $5 bet? :D

[jsthomas1 @ Dec 24th 2008 10:23PM]

so someone broke a centro. great, tell me how i can break mine too because this is just so fantastically useful.

[Uncontrol @ Dec 25th 2008 2:35AM]

shut up

[STINK @ Dec 24th 2008 10:24PM]

MacGyver OC's his phone and throws it at the bad guys in their Chrysler Lebaron and it explodes and THE WORLD IS SAVED again.

[gonintendo @ Dec 24th 2008 10:26PM]

Is this the newness?

[Graham @ Dec 24th 2008 11:10PM]

Is this a blog?

[Capitan @ Dec 24th 2008 10:28PM]

Dear sweet lord of all things holy..... that's fast

But the question remains, even with that much power, does the palm platform still stink?

[pheer6224 @ Dec 24th 2008 10:41PM]

Yes, but not as much as winmo. My 680 will tide me over just fine until I can afford some android hardware.
Unless of course you're putting it down as usual, then you should really try actually using it, it helps to form a more... real opinion.

[Sergio @ Dec 25th 2008 11:00AM]

Please dont mess with Winmob, its a blessing for many of us!

[bhtooefr @ Dec 24th 2008 10:31PM]

Hmm.

Anything on how they did it?

[SNP @ Dec 24th 2008 10:31PM]

you can OC a POS as much as you want, it won't make it smell any better....may actually make it worse...

[gettingmymacon @ Dec 24th 2008 10:33PM]

can it run crysis?

[dcoaster @ Dec 24th 2008 10:57PM]

LOL